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Your Native Perspective: Understanding Meetings

Contributor: Joanne Hunt

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Itʼs as if weʼre asleep. Most of us go through life unaware of just how unique our personal perspective really is. Only through years of life experience and interpersonal challenges do we gradually awaken to the fact that other people have genuinely, and often drastically different, fundamental ways of looking at the world. Different ways of being, perceiving, and doing... Itʼs time to wake up. Waking up to your unique Native Perspective is a very powerful transformational exercise you can undertake to accelerate your self-understanding. It can help you better understand how and why you interpret your life experience and personal relationships the way you do, help you to find more compassion and love for the rich diversity you encounter, and enhance your professional skill and communication. Using Integral theoryʼs four quadrants, join us in this role-playing exercise as four colleagues undergo the first 2 minutes of a business meeting where they discuss a new project. Watch how each participant brings a dramatically different Native Perspective—or “orienting quadrant”—to the table, then get inside their heads to see how they interpret the meeting. Can you spot your own Native Perspective? This exercise can help you unfold into greater fullness and a richer sense of who you are. As you explore your own Native Perspective, watch all of the ways this new awareness helps you understand your relationships, your intentions, and your native comfort zone. It will also help you understand why there are certain people you have such a hard time relating to, and why others just seem to “get it.” The results are eye-opening, inspiring, challenging, funny, and no doubt painful (the best kind, of course). Enjoy... Your Native Perspective in Meetings
In this video presentation, Joanne Hunt (Vice President of Integral Coaching and Development) offers a fascinating overview of "Native Perspectives," a powerful diagnostic tool used by Integral Coaching that integrates two different components of the Integral model: quadrants and typologies. Identifying the four fundamental ways we relate to ourselves, each other, and the world around us, Joanne uses the example of a typical business meeting to show how these perspectives play themselves out in our everyday lives.


The Four Perspectives
Here Joanne gives a fuller explanation of the four Native Perspectives, personified by four characters in a meeting: Robert representing the interior-individual view (the UL quadrant), Huy as the exterior-individual view (the UR quadrant), Lisa as the exterior-collevtive view (the LR quadrant), and Nicole as the interior-collective view (the LL quadrant). As you watch this presentation, try to get a sense of what your own Native Perspective might be. Which of these four characters do you relate to the most? Are there any characteristics that you often find yourself annoyed or irritated with?


The Meeting
Now we get to see the interplay of these four perspectives, each approaching a standard business meeting with very different needs, outlooks, and motivations.


The View from Your Perspective
Now we get to see how each of these perspectives interfaces with the others. As the primary filters through which we experience life, the universe, and everything, our Native Perspectives represent more than a means of self-discovery—more importantly, they help us to appreciate and understand the people around us, enabling us to become much more loving and skillful in our interactions with each other.



Robert's View: UL Translations
Here we get a glimpse into Robert's interior-individual point of view, showing how he relates to the other three perspectives around the table:



Huy's View: UR Translations
Now we have Huy's exterior-individual point of view:



Lisa's View: LR Translations
Here we see Lisa's exterior-collective point of view:



Nicole's View: LL Translations
And finally, Nicole's interior-collective point of view:

Be on the lookout for the second installation of this presentation, which will be an exercise to help you determine what your own Native Perspective might be. Coming soon—stay tuned!

Want to deepen this discussion? Contribute to this Integral Life inquiry: "Describe your native perspective and how it has colored your experience of the world."